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* ! Statistical Research in Epidemiological Studies
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Date / Time / Room
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Sponsor
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Type
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08/14/2002
10:30 AM -
12:20 PM
Room: H-Gramercy Suite A
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Biometrics Section*, ENAR, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology*
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Contributed
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Organizer:
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n/a
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Chair:
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Colleen Kelly, San Diego State University
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Discussant:
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Description
This session covers various recent development of statistical methods in epidemiology, including the optimal strategy in designing a case control study, methods of estimating the prevalence of epilepsy, variance estimation for rate estimates from two independent surveys, the underlying disease prevalence related to capture-recapture sampling, use of hierarchical structures and compartmental models to study spatio-temporal health events, as well as methods in cost-effective or cost-efficient analysis.
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